Boston transit officer snatches man from danger

BOSTON (AP) - A Boston transit police officer is credited with saving the life of a suicidal man by grabbing his arm and pulling him to safety just as he was about to teeter from a subway station platform onto the tracks.

Detective Sean Conway says he saw the man, drinking from a bottle and yelling incoherently, at the platform's edge at the Park Street Station at about 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Conway ran up one set of stairs and down another before snatching the man to safety and holding him down.

The next train was several minutes from the station, but the bigger danger was the 600-volt third rail.

Conway tells The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/1uJlnVG ) the man thanked him before being taken to the hospital. His name was not released.

Comments

Thank goodness there are some people out there paying attention and doing their job and just being a real PERSON and not a dang boob like so many are. THANK YOU Detective Sean Conway, THANK YOU. I hope you got a good feeling about yourself for grabbing that man back to safety, because you dang well should!

Detective Conway more than likely saved the man's life. How in the world can people post so many mean and ignorant comments? I rode the subway in Chicago for twenty-some years and I was always concerned someone would bump into me and push me onto the tracks. The Detective Conways of this world are to be appreciated and lauded for their courage and determination to do the right thing !!!

Americans have this bad, embarrassing habit of turning any ordinary incident into national heroism. You yanks should start retrofitting those stations with PSDs in view of your suicidal tendencies, public drunkenness and dumbness. This would prevent events like this one and we would not have to be insulted reading this tabloid crap.